News For The Day 15/02/07

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Isaacs: nice to play 'unalloyed Nazi evil'

Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) is currently performing in the West End play The Dumb Waiter. In a new interview, he talks about the play and, of course, briefly discusses Harry Potter.

"It's absurd a man of my age doing that stuff. And then you get there and realise you're doing scenes with Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter. I look at the call sheet and they're going to be there today, I'm going to get to talk to them. Before you know it you're having lunch and sharing HP sauce. It's fantastic.

"If you're someone like me who finds work enjoyably tortured - I'm constantly niggling away trying to make it better and realer and more three-dimensional - it's nice to leave all that at home and turn up at Harry Potter and just be unalloyed Nazi evil."

Design the cover of Book 7 contest!

Are you a talented photoshop wizard who's spent the past few weeks pondering what the cover of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will look like? If so, we have the perfect contest for you! Show us your best creative work and win awesome - trust us - prizes (to be announced at a later date). For more information, click here.

Please send all submissions to covercontest at staff dot mugglenet dot com.

Good luck!

Photo of Harry and Luna in OOTP

HarryLatino.com has a new scan from ViveCine magazine picturing Harry and Luna in a hallway of Hogwarts. We hope to have a larger version of this image soon. Thanks to Dan for the tip!

More photos from NECA Toy Fair

Our friends at MillionairePlayboy.com have some great new photos online from the display of upcoming OOTP products at the NECA Toy Fair. The event was held this past weekend in New York City.

Harry Potter chess

Deagostini will release a weekly HP chess magazine, and each issue will contain a chess piece inspired by the first Potter film. Each chess piece has "magical effects"; for example, the Rooks magnetically move with use of a wand (also included), and the Queen glows. Future issues also promise a free replica Time-Turner and magical floating pen. The first issue is priced at 1.99, and the magazine can be purchased only in the UK.

EDIT: The magazine is also available in Germany, Austria, and Ireland.

thatz all the news for the day...

have a gr8 time....

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